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Should the desire for self-aggrandisement survive that day, the door would be thrown open to selfishness of a malignant type and to general demoralisation. And this is what would assuredly come to pass. In the first place, the desire for self-aggrandisement, which always has the push of Nature's expansive forces behind it, would certainly survive that ill-omened day.
'I don't know whether it was the demoralisation of my utter defeat in my encounter with a spectre of fear less than an hour ago, but I let him capture me without even a show of resistance. I was doomed to be the recipient of confidences, and to be confronted with unanswerable questions. It was trying; but the contempt, the unreasoned contempt, the man's appearance provoked, made it easier to bear.
The Effects of Liberty Difficulty of Obtaining Accurate Information Pessimist Testimony of the Proprietors Vague Replies of the Peasants My Conclusions in 1877 Necessity of Revising Them My Investigations Renewed in 1903 Recent Researches by Native Political Economists Peasant Impoverishment Universally Recognised Various Explanations Suggested Demoralisation of the Common People Peasant Self-government Communal System of Land Tenure Heavy Taxation Disruption of Peasant Families Natural Increase of Population Remedies Proposed Migration Reclamation of Waste Land Land-purchase by Peasantry Manufacturing Industry Improvement of Agricultural Methods Indications of Progress.
I believe the country is too populous, and the population too wicked, for this plan to succeed. The murderers will be brought in from a distance. The state of demoralisation in which the country is is dreadful. Murders are held to be of no account. November 17. Read, as I came down to Worthing, Colonel McDonald's last despatches, and his private letter, which I received last night.
Lately, I had not shuddered at this habitual profanation. The work of demoralisation had commenced. I knew it then, and with this knowledge, the first pang of guilty shame entered my bosom. I stood up with reverence upon the cross-trees. I took off my hat, and though I did not even whisper the prayers we had used at school, mentally I went through the whole of them.
In their small but pretty house, terrible scenes had already occurred between her and her brother consternation, anger, and passionate denial on her part; on his, fury, threats, maudlin paroxysms of self-pity, and every attitude that drink and utter demoralisation can distort into a parody on what a brother might say and do.
It had bought its comfort with the demoralisation of its servants. It had no completely honest organs; its spirit was clogged by its accumulated insincerities.
"While the Northern people and the Federal authorities were still a prey to the demoralisation which had followed Bull Run, he proposed to advance with 10,000 troops into north-west Virginia, where he would reclaim the whole country, and summon the inhabitants of Southern sentiment to join his army.
The Mobiles, on the other hand, fought splendidly, and were holding the position when he left. I am writing this in a café. It is full of Gardes Nationaux. They are saying that if the troops of the line are not trustworthy, resistance is hopeless. A Garde National gives the following explanation of the demoralisation of the army.
The most characteristic point of his speculations is his view of the poor-laws. Nobody could speak with more good sense and feeling of the demoralisation which they were actually producing, of the sapping of the spirit of independence, and of all the devices by which the agricultural labourer was losing the happiness enjoyed in early years. But Cobbett's deduction from his principles is peculiar.
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